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<h2>Wages and Education of Young Males</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987
</p>
<p><EM>total number of observations</EM> :  4360
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Males)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame containing :
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<dl>
<dt>nr</dt><dd><p>identifier</p>
</dd>
<dt>year</dt><dd><p>year</p>
</dd>
<dt>school</dt><dd><p>years of schooling</p>
</dd>
<dt>exper</dt><dd><p>years of experience (computed as <code>age-6-school</code>)</p>
</dd>
<dt>union</dt><dd><p>wage set by collective bargaining ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ethn</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>black, hisp, other</code></p>
</dd>
<dt>married</dt><dd><p>married?</p>
</dd>
<dt>health</dt><dd><p>health problem ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>wage</dt><dd><p>log of hourly wage</p>
</dd>
<dt>industry</dt><dd><p>a factor with 12 levels</p>
</dd>
<dt>occupation</dt><dd><p>a factor with 9 levels</p>
</dd>
<dt>residence</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>rural area, north east, northern central, south</code></p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive  
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/">http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/</a>.
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Vella, F. and  M. Verbeek (1998) &ldquo;Whose Wages Do Unions Raise? A Dynamic Model of Unionism and Wage Rate Determination for Young Men&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>13</B>(2), 163&ndash;183.
</p>
<p>Verbeek, M. (2004) <EM>A Guide to Modern Econometrics</EM>, John Wiley and Sons, <a href="http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME">http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME</a>, chapter 10.
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